German National Facilities
At the national level, there are the national facilities that collect the measurement data and provide a large part of the services for users.
ACTRIS envisages three forms of national facilities:
Fixed observation stations, mobile platforms and simulation chambers.
Contributions to the Observation Stations
Alfred-Wegener-Institut
Deutscher Wetterdienst
Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main
Karlsruher Institut für Technologie
Leibniz-Institut für Troposphärenforschung
- Cape Verde Atmospheric Observatory (CVAO)
- Melpitz Research Station
- Schmücke Observatory
- Other Stations for aerosol: Dushanbe, Leipzig, Limassol
Ludwigs-Maximilians-Universität München
Umweltbundesamt
Universität Bremen
- Other Stations for reactive trace gases: Bremen, Paramaribo
Universität zu Köln
Contributions to the Mobile Stations
Karlsruher Institut für Technologie
Leibniz-Institut für Troposphärenforschung
- Aerosol from Ground to Cloud Mobile Experiment (ACME)
- Leipzig Aerosol and Cloud Remote Observations System (LACROS)
- Shipborne platforms OCEANET and Polarstern-2
Universität Bremen